My dad's pride and joy

Terri,

No wonder he love him so much. That is a best dog and Friend one can have and he is beautiful to me. I love labs.

The image looks great to me. Background is rather neon green tho.

Lets see what the experts say.

I love the shot. Good job.

Yes black is hard to shoot.

But I think you did a good job.

 

Awwwwww, I'm not even a pet person (i know, how dare I even say the words), and that is about the sweetest puppy face I've seen!

 

What a sweetie. About the only nit that I have Terri is the same as Gale's. I'd back off of the color saturation just a tad.

Otherwise, it looks great.

 

Hi Terri

A couple of minor suggestions:

o I would eliminate the brown background at the top of the photo and clone in the green, after desaturating it a little.

o I would also add a little canvas to the top of the photo, cloning in green there as well.

I like the detail, expression, colour and tone on the dog.

 

AWE!! Good lookin' DAWG there!! Nice shot Terri!!      

 

I think just adjusting the greens saturation and lighten. I hope you don't mind, I think it makes a big difference.

Ron

 

I like the colouring of the second, but a touch darker, makes his fur richer as in the first shot. A really great portrait of a really good looking pooch!

 

I was in a rush, I have now applied a mask to the Lab so now the adjustments are to the background only.

Ron

 

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Go to the layers palate and create a adjustment layer (the little circle with half dark and half white). When you click on the circle and hold it a menu pops up, you should choose hue/saturation. With the layer selected just go to the photo (your cursor will turn into a eye dropper) then select on of the darker tones of green. Now make your reduction in saturation and increase in lighten. You will only be working with the green tones with the saturation. To keep from applying the lightness to the dog select the mask (right box on adjustment layer) and paint the dog black. Don't worry your only making a mask so the adjustments will not be applied to the dog. If you don't want the green to be lighter then just ignore the lightness. You could just change the tint of green to something a little more eye pleasing.

Addition - When you start your adjustment layer use the top pulldown menu to select greens, then use your eye dropper to select the correct color you want to work on. Infact you will see yellow is in need of adjusting. If you do not do this you will not be able to select the color with the eye dropper.

I hope this helps.

Ron Strobel

 

Great shot. I bet he would appreciate any of the versions posted. the only thing that's going to make that dog any happier is being out in the field with his buddy.

 

Terri,

Good job on the second version. Isn't it neat to come to the Cafe and get new ideas from all of the nice folks here?? :wink:

 

Terri, I'll add just one more. I would try to increase the catchlight in the dogs eyes a bit. You can do this in PS by selecting just that area and lightening, or if you have a copy of Paint Shop Pro, and this is why I keep it around, the Red Eye Removal tool also enables you to add some catchlight, and is very easy to use. Other than that, and of course that it is not a Mini-Schnauzer :wink: , looks really good.

 

That is what I would try first. I use Paint-Shop-Pro for that, but in PS that is where I would begin. You might have to do some blends around the edges as well.

Mini's are cool. It is amazing to see what around 100 Schnauzers look, and sound like, in one place :lol: